Over the next two and a half centuries, attempts were made to unfurl some of the hundreds of scrolls using everything from rose water and mercury to vegetable gas and papyrus juice, according to the ...

The charred scrolls of Herculaneum, buried under the ash of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, have long mesmerized scholars with their mysteries. Discovered in the 1750s at the villa of Julius ...

The Vesuvius Challenge is an unparalleled competition in the field of classical studies, with the potential to pave the way for something akin to a second Renaissance. Its objective is to use ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This undated image made available by Vesuvius Challenge shows an X-ray scan of part of papyrus scroll PHerc.172, showing the word ...

After hundreds of years of trying, experts have finally managed to read a series of iconic, ancient scrolls – with a little help from AI. More than 800 of these parchments were retrieved from the ...

A professor at the University of Kentucky used AI to digitally unwrap ancient scrolls. A computer science professor at the University of Kentucky led a successful effort to digitally unwrap ancient ...

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In July 2024, Diamond's powerful light enabled a team from the nearby Bodleian Libraries to scan a 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll. The scroll, one of three housed at the libraries, was studied on ...

For more than a century, three tiny Buddhist scrolls have sat tightly coiled in the collection of a German museum, their contents unknown. Now, thanks to cutting-edge technology, researchers have ...

London — The Herculaneum scrolls have remained one of the many tantalizing mysteries of the ancient world for almost 2,000 years. Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the reams of ...

(CNN) — Scholars are decoding an ancient scroll that was one of hundreds charred to a crisp during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. The artifact, which is kept at the University of Oxford’s ...